In beauty other beauties farre As doth the Moone by night deface The brightnesse of each other Starre Though Filander spake these words high enough yet Daphnis heard but some of them by reason she was farre off but taking it somewhat remote she drew toward him without being seene as softly as she could though he were so intentiue to his imagination that had she beene before him he would not haue perceiued it as he since swore to me Hardly had she got neere him but she might heare him fetch a deepe sigh loud enough and after with a lowe voyce say And why will not my fortune haue me as fit to serue her as she is worthy to be serued and why may not she as well receiue the affections of them that loue her as shee giue them extreme passions Ah Callyre how pernitious to my repose hath your disguising beene and my boldnesse punished with a right iust infliction Daphnis heard Filander very attentiuely and though he spake plaine yet could she not comprehend what he meant abused by the opinion that he was Callyre this was the cause that bending an care more curiously she heard him lifting his voyce somewhat higher say But ouer-bold Filander who shall euer excuse thy fault or what great chastisement shall equall thine error Thou louest this shepheardesse and seest not that how much her beauty commands so much her vertue forbids thee how often haue I warned thee and yet thou wouldest not beleeue me Accuse none other of thine euill but thine owne folly At this word his tongue stayed but his eyes and sighes in stead of it beganne to giue testimony what her passion was whereof he had discouered but a little And to diuert him from his thoughts or rather to continue them more sweetly he rose vp to walke as he vsed and so suddenly that he perceiued Daphnis though to hide her selfe she fled away But he that had seene her to know who it was pursued her to the entry of a very thicke wood where he ouertooke her and thinking she had discouered that which he had so concealed halfe in choler sayd What curiosity Daphnis is this to come and spie me out in the night heere It is answered Daphnis smiling to learne of you by craft that which I should not know otherwise and herein she thought she spake to Callyre not hauing yet discouered that it was Filander Well held on Filander thinking to be discouered what great newes haue you learned All sayd Daphnis that I desired to know Will you then sayd Filander satisfie your selfe with your curiosity As well answered she as you and you are like to finde hurt of your deceit For this keeping about Diane and this great affection which you make shew of to her will bring you in the end but trouble and displeasure O God! cryed Filander Is it possible I should be discouered Ah discreet Daphnis since you know so well the cause of my abode heere you haue in your hands my life and my death but if you will bethinke you of what I am and what offices of amity you haue receiued from me when occasion is presented I will rather beleeue that you wish my good and contentment more then my despayre and ruine Daphnis as yet thought she spake to Callyre and had opinion that this feare was because of Gerestan who would take it euill if hee vnderstood that she did this office to her brother and to assure him sayd You ought to be so farre from doubting that I know of your affayres that if you had informed me I should haue yeelded all the counsell and all the assistance which you could desire of mee But tell mee this dessigne from poynt to poynt that your freenesse may binde me more to your seruice than the mistrust you haue had of me gaue me offence I will O Daphnis sayd he prouided that you promise me not to tell it to Diane vntill I giue consent This is a discourse answered the shepheardesse which we shall make to no good purpose to her her humor heerein being more strange then you are aware of That is my griefe sayd Philander hauing from the beginning knowne that I enterprise a dessigne almost impossible For when my sister and I resolued to change habit shee taking mine and I hers I well fore-sawe that all that would be to mine aduantage was that I might conuerse more freely with her for some few dayes so disguised that she might not know me for Filander How interrupted Daphnis all surprized how for Filander and are not you Callyre The shepheard that thought she had knowne it before was halfe mad to be discouered so foolishly but seeing the fault was past and that he could not call backe the words he had spoken thought it to some purpose to preuent her and sayd You may see Daphnis if you haue cause to be sorry for me and to say that I trust you not since so freely I discouer vnto you the secret of my life For that which I will tell you is of that moment that as soone as any other knowes it there is no more hope of health in me but I will rely and so referre my selfe to your hands that I cannot liue but by you Know then shepheardesse that you see before you Filander in the habit of his sister and that loue in me and compassion in her haue beene the cause of our disguising and after went discoursing vnto her his extreme affection the fauours he had of Amidor and Filidas the inuention of Callyre to change habit the resolution to go to her husband attired like a man Briefly all that had passed in this affayre with such demonstration of loue that though at the beginning Daphnis wondred at his hardinesse and at his sisters yet so it was that she lost that wonder when she knew the greatnesse of his affection iudging that they might draw him into more great follies And albeit that if they had called her to thier counsell when they vndertooke the enterprize she would neuer haue aduised them to it yet seeing the effect had sorted to some good she resolued to assist him in all that was possible sparing neyther labour nor care nor art which she iudged fit to imploy and hauing made promise with all assurances of friendship she gaue the best aduice she could which was by little and little to engage me into his loue For sayd she Loue among women is one of those wrongs the words whereof offend more then the blowe It is a worke that none is ashamed to doe prouided the name be hidden So that I hold them the best aduised which cause themselues to be beloued of their shepheards before they speake a word to them of loue So that I oue is a creature that hath nothing rude in it but the name being otherwise so pleasing that there is none offended at it And therefore that Diane may entertayne it it must be without naming it especially without seeing it and
loues you and that the heauens haue permitted the disdaine of Astrea for that they like not that a shepheardesse should any longer possesse that which a Nymph desires acknowledge your good hap and refuse it not The astonishment of the shepheard was great notwithstanding seeing that Merill obserued his actions he would make no shew of it Then locking them againe together and lying downe in his bed he asked who gaue them to him I tooke them said he out of my Ladyes deske and but for the desire I had to put you out of the paine wherein I saw you I durst not haue gone for them for that she is not well at ease And who is with her demanded Celadon The two Nymphs which you saw yesterday where of the one is Leonide the Niece of Adamas the other is Siluie the daughter of Diante the glorious and indeed she is not his daughter without reason for shee is the most lofty in her behauiour that you shall lightly see So receiued Celadon the first aduertisement of the good will of Galathee for though there were neither cipher nor seale to the scroule hee had receiued yet iudged he that it would not haue beene done without her knowledge And then he fore-saw that this would be a surcharge to his sorrowes and that he must vndergoe it Seeing then that halfe of the day was almost passed and finding himselfe in good case he would keepe no longer in bed thinking that the sooner he left it the sooner he might take his leaue of these faire Nymphs And being risen in this deliberation as he was ready to goe out to walke he met with Leonide and Siluie whom Galathee not daring to rise nor yet shew her selfe to him for shame of the scroule she had writ had sent to giue him entertainment They went downe into the garden And because Celadon would hide his sorrow he shewed a countenance as pleasant as he could dissemble and seeming to be curious to know euery thing he saw Faire Nymphs said he to them is it not heereabout that the Fountaine of the truth of Loue is I am very willing if it be possible to see it It is hard by answered the Nymph for wee must goe downe but this great Wood. But it is impossible to see it and you must thanke this faire that is the cause poynting to Siluie I know not replyed she why you accuse me For for my part I neuer heard the sword blamed which cut the foole that laid his finger vnder it It is true answered Leonide but if I be not deceiued that which wounds and your beauty are not in the number of those that are seene without homicide Such as it is answered Siluie with a little blushing it hath lynes strong enow euer to let that goe that it hath once tyed vp She said this vpbrayding her with the infidelity of Agis who hauing somtimes loued her for aielousie or for an absence of two months was entirely changed and for Polemas whom another beauty had robbed her of the which she vnderstood well enough So I confesse my sister replyed she my lines are easie to slide but that is because I would neuer take the paine to stiffen them Celadon hearing with great pleasure their prety disputation that they might not breake off too soone he sayd to Siluie Faire Nymph since from you the difficulty proceedes of seeing this admirable Fountain we shall a little be obliged vnto you if from your selfe we know how this fell out Celadon answered the Nymph somewhat smiling You haue businesse enough of your owne without need to search into any other yet if curiosity can haue any place in your loue this prattler Leonide if you request her will tell you the end since without any motion she hath so well told the beginning Sister answered Leonide your beauty makes all them to speake much better that discourse of it and since you giue me leaue to tell of one effect the world should take knowledge of yet lest we too much should trouble the shepheard I wil abridge for this bout as much as I can possibly Not for that interrupted the shepheard but to giue leasure to this Nymph to yeeld you the like Make no doubt of that replied Siluie but according to her vsage of mee I shall see what I haue to doe So what by the one and what by the other Celadon shall learne from their owne mouth their life in particular and that in the deliuery he might better heare them they placed him betweene them and walking a soft pace Leonide beganne in this manner The History of Siluie THey that say that to be beloued there needes nothing but to loue haue not tryed it neither in the eyes nor courage of this Nymph otherwise they were to know that as the water of the Fountaine runs incessantly from the spring so the Loue which rises from this faire wanders from her as farre as it can If when you haue heard the discourse which I am to make to you you will not auerre that that I say I am willing you should accuse me of small iudgement Amasis the mother of Galathee hath a sonne named Clidamon accompanied with all the amiable vertues that a person of his age and quality may haue for he seemeth to be borne to all that pertaine to Armes or Ladyes It is about three yeeres since that to giue some proofe of his gentle nature with the permission of Amasis he became seruant to al the Nymphs and that not by election but by lot For hauing put all the names of the Nymphs into a vessell and all the young Knights into another before all the assembly he tooke the youngest among vs and the youngest among them to the man he gaue the vessell of the Nymphs and to the mayd that of the men And then after the sound of the trumpets the Youth drew and the first name that came out was Siluie and the same instant the lot was drawne by the youngest Nymph who drew that of Clidamon Great was the applause of euery one but greater the gentlenesse of Clidamon who after he had receiued the scroule came with one knee on the ground to kisse the hands of this faire Nymph who out of shamefastnesse would not suffer him without the commandement of Amasis who said it was the least part of seruice that was due vnto her in the honour of so great a god as Loue. After her all the rest were called to some it fell out as they desired to others not so it was that Galathee had a most accomplished person named Lindamor who as then was but lately come from the Army of Meroue As for mine he was called Agis the most inconstant and deceitfull that euer was Now of those that were thus bestowed some serued onely in shew others of good will ratified to these faire the deuotion which fortune had made of them and they that maintained themselues best were such as before had conceiued some affection
arme after he had stayed some while without speech he told you at last Faire Nymph it is not for nothing that I dispute in myselfe whether I should or whether I should not declare that which I haue in my soule for to dissemble may bee allowed in that which may sometimes bee changed but that which constraines mee to speake at this time shall accompany me euen to my Tombe Here I stayed and sayd to her Will you haue me repeat Leonide the same words which you answered Without lie then said Polemas you put your selfe into great hazard of being discouered Not a whit answered Climanthe and to giue you proofe of perfection of my memory I will tell you the very words But replyed Polemas what if I had forgot to tel them you Oh adioyned Climanthe I doubt not of that but so it is that the subiect of the words was that that you told me she her selfe doth not remeÌ„ber the words theÌ„selues so that out of the opinion that it was a god that had told me she beleeued they were the very same If you had not 〈◊〉 so familâ—ar with her as your secre 〈…〉 affectioÌ„ made you I had not so easily vnder taken it but remembring that you had told mee that you had serued her long and that seruice was well accepted of till the time that you changed affection and that you are become the seruant of Galathee and namely that that was the cause that to do you a displeasure she held on Lindâ—â—â—ors part against you I boldly told her all that had passed at that time knowing Loue would not suffer that one should conceale any thing from the person whom they loue But to come againe to our purpose she answered I am willing you shuld say what you please but we will beleeue what we list This she said as beeing a little pricked with that which shee would should haue beene concealed from her companions I went on Well Leonide you may beleeue what you please for I assure my selfe that I haue said nothing which in your soule you haue not found for true You answered him as seeming not to vnderstand what he would say You haue reason Agis not to hide by dissimulation that which must accompany you so long as you liue otherwise it beeing impossible but it must be discouered you shall be taken for a double person a name which is honourable to no sort of people but much lesse to them who make the profession that you doe This counsell then answered hee and my passion constraine mee to tell you faire Nymph that neither the inequality of your merits to me nor the small good will which I haue found in you could not hinder my affection nor my boldnesse that they haue not raysed me vp to you so that if not the quality of the gift but the will is to be receiued I may say with assurance that none can offer you a greater sacrifice for that heart which I giue you I giue with all the affections and with all the powers of my soule and so all that which after this deuotion is not found to be yours I disauow and renounce it as not appertaining to me The conclusion was that you answered Agis I will beleeue these words when the time and your seruices shall haue told me them as well as your mouth See the first declaration of amity which you had of him whereof afterwards he gaue you such proofe as well by sute hee made to marry you as by the quarrells which he had against many whom hee was iealous of It was at that time that when you would haue frizeled your haire you burnt your cheeke whereupon he made this verse A SONG Of Agis on the burning of Leonides cheeke VVHile Loue did please himselfe to play Within the gold of your faire haire A sparkle of his fiers rare Vnhapp'ly on your cheeke did stay You cruell Nymph may iudge thereon How sâ—re the smart of fire stings Since that but one small sparke alone So much of dolour with it brings Meane while that your eye forth did dart When yet with it the conquest goes So many fires against my heart Your cheeke was hurt by one of those You cruell Nymph may iudge thereon How sore the smart of fire stings Since that but one small sparke alone So much of doloâ—r with it brings While that my heart that flaming was To dart as you had purposed His fire that could no further passe Burned your cheeke in your foules sted You cruell Nymph may iudge thereon How sore the smart of fire stings Since that but one small sparke alone So much of dâ—â—our with it brings And to make it appeare to you that I truely know these things by a diuinity which canot lie whose eie eare perceth euen to the depth of the heart I will tell you a thing on this subiect that no man could know but you and Agis She was afraid I would discouer some secret which would anger heâ— and it was my purpose to giue her that apprehension and that was the cause that she sayd to me much disquieted Man of God though I beleeue not but that you and others may say that on this subiect which imports me yet this discourse is so sensible that it will bee hard to handle it with so gentle an hand but the wound will bleed therefore I beseech you to make an end She vttered these words with such a change of countenance and a voyce so broken that for her better assurance I was constrained to say You are not to thinke me of so small a consideration that I know not how to conceale that which may offend you nor that I am ignorant that the least wounds are sensible enough in that part which I touch for it is to the heart that all these strokes are directed but because you will know no more I will hold my peace And it is time that I goe to the Diuinity that calls me And at that instant I arose and gaue them the good day Then after I had made some shewes of ceremonies ouer the riuer I sayd very loud O soueraigne Deity which abidest in this place behold how with this water I cleanse my selfe and vncloath me of all the prophanenesse which the conuersing among men might leaue in me since I came out of thy holy Temple At these words I dipped my hands thrice into the water and then taking vp in the hollow of the one I receiued it thrice into my mouth my eyes and hands lifted vp to heauen and so went to my Cabbin without speaking to them and because I doubted they had the curiosity to come see what I did I went before the Altar where making a shew to cast my selfe on the ground I drew out the horse haires which taking their effect let the little steele table that stood before the glasse fall which fell so to purpose on the flint that it strucke fire and instantly tooke hold on
that at once haue layd all my hopes in her coffin And if you be in any sort offended pardon Tyrcis the errour which hee hath committed against you that he might not be wanting in that which was due to Cleon. At these words transported with choler I went away so farre besides my selfe that I could hardly finde out my lodging from whence I stirred not of a long time But after wee haue crossed Loue a thousand times yet must we submit our selues and therfore behold me as much to Tyrcis as euer I was I excuse in my selfe the treasons which he had done me and pardon him the wrongs and faynings where with hee offended me naming them in pardoning them not dissemblings nor treasons but violences of loue And I was the easlyer drawne vnto this pardon for the Loue who professeth himselfe a party in this fault went flattring me with a certaine hope to succeed in Cleons place While I was in this thought behold one of my sisters came to tell me that Tyrcis was lost so that he was no more to be seene and no body knew where he was This recharge of griefe surprized me so forcibly that all that I could do was to tel her that this sadnes being ouer-passed he would returne as he went But from that time I resolued to follow him and that I might not be hindered by any I got out so secretly about the beginning of the night that before day I found my selfe farre off If I were astonished at the first seeing my selfe alone in the darke the heauens know it to whom my complaints were directed but Loue which secretly accompanyed me gaue me courage enough to accomplish my purpose So I pursued my voyage following without more adoe the way which my seet met with for I knew not whither Tyrcis went nor my selfe neither So that I was a wandere more than foure moneths hearing no newes of him At last pâ—ssâ—â—â— the mount Dor I met with this shepheardesse said she poynting to Malonthe and with her that shepheard called Thersander sitting vnder the shadow of a Rocke wayting vntill the mid-dayes heate were abated And for that my custome was to demaund newes of Tyrcis of all I met I addressed my selfe to the place where I sawe them and knew that my shepheard by the marks they had giuen me was in those deserts and that he went alwayes bewayling Cleon. Then I told them what I tell you and coniured them to tell me the most certayne newes they could Whereto Mâ—donthe moued with pity answered me with that sweetnes that I iudged her strucken with the same disease that 〈◊〉 was and my opinion was not false for I knew since the long history of her griefes by which I found that Loue strikes as well in the Court as in our woods and for that our fortunes had some sympathy betwixt them she desired me to tarry and end our iourny together since we both made one kind of search I that was alone receiued with open armes this commodity and from that time we parted not asunder But what serues this discourse to my purpose since I will onely relate to you what concernes Tyrcis and me Gentle shepheard this shall be enough to say to you that after we had stayed more then three moneths in that country at last we knew he was come hither where we no sooner arriued but that I met him and so vnseasonably for him that he stood as amazed At the first he receiued me with a countenance good enough but at last knowing the occasion of my voyage he declared to me all at length the extreme affection he bare vnto Cleon and that it was not in his power to loue me Loue if there be any iustice in thee I demaund of thee and not of this ingratefull some acknowledgement of so much trauell passed So ended Laonice and seeming she had no more to say wiping her eyes she turned them pittifully to Siluander as asking fauour in the iustice of her cause Then Tyrcis spake in this sort Wise shepheard though the history of my misfortunes be such as this shepheardesse hath told you yet is the story of my griefes much more pittifull wherewith yet I will entertayne you no longer for feare of troubling you and the company onely I will adde to that which she hath sayd that not being able to endure her ordinary complaints by common consent we went to the Oracle to know what he would ordayne of vs and we had such an answer by the mouth of Arontyne ORACLE On Lignons bankes which glideth peaceably Louer thou shalt a curious shepheard see That first enquires the ill that tortreth thee Beleeue him Heauen appoynts him Iudge to be And though we haue beene long heere yet are you the first that asked of the state of our fortunes therefore it is that we cast our selues into your armes and we desire you to set downe what you will haue vs do And for that nothing may be done but according to the will of God the old woman who gaue vs the Oracle told vs that hauing met with you wee were to cast Lots who should maintayne the cause both of the one and other and for this effect all they whom we met should put a gage betweene your hands in a hat The first that drawes shall bee hee that speakes for Laonice and the last of all for me At these words he desired them all to be willing to it whereto euery one consented By fortune that of Hylas was the first and that of Phillis the last Whereat Hylas smiling Heretofore said hee when I was seruant to Laonice I should hardly haue had the minde to perswade Tircis to loue her but now that I am for Mâ—donthe I willingly obey to that the god commands Shepheard answered Leonide you are to vnderstand by the way what the prouidence of this diuinity is since to mooue each one to change of affection it hath giuen the charge to inconstant Hylas as to him that by vse well knowes the meanes and to continue a faithful loue it hath giuen the perswasion to a shepheardesse constant in all her actions and to iudge of them both it hath chosen a person that cannot be partiall for Siluander is neither constant nor inconstant since he neuer loued any Then Siluander taking the word Since therefore you will O Tircis and you Laonice that I be Iudge of your difference sweare both of you betweene my hands that you will inuiolably obserue it otherwise it will bee but more to displease the gods and for vs to take paine to no purpose Which they did and then Hylas began thus The Oration of Hylas for Laonice IF I were to maintaine the cause of Laonice before a person vnnaturall I would feare it may be lest the want of my capacity might lessen in some sort the iustice which is in it but since it is before you gentle shepheard that haue the heart of a man I meane which know what the
I haue of Carlis You say you do loue me If a more credible person than you should tell me so it may be I might beleeue him for I know well I deserue it But I that neuer lied assure you that I loue you not at all and therefore doubt not of it so should I seeme to haue small iudgement to loue an humour so contemptible If you finde these words somewhat tâ—o rude remember Hylas I am constrayned to the end you may not perswade your selfe that you are beloued of me Carlis is witnesse to me of the condition of Hylas and Hylas shal be of mine if at least he will at any time say true If this answer please you giue thankes to the prayer of Hermante if it displease remember you accuse none but your selfe Hermante had not seene this Letter when he deliuered it me and yet he had an opinion there was much coldnesse in it yet did not hee thinke shee should haue made it so strange neyther was he so much astonied as my selfe for I stoode like a man bereaued of his wits letting the Letter fall on the ground and after being come to my selfe I pulled downe my hat ouer mine eares cast mine eyes downe on the earth crossed mine armes ouer my brest and a great pace without speaking began to walke about the chamber Hermante stood immoueable in the middest not so much as casting his eyes towards me We stayed some time in this manner not speaking at last in an instant striking one hand against the other and making a leape in the middest of the chamber At her peril said I aloude let her seeke who will loue her that she may know if there want in Carmaine shepheardesses more faire than she and who wil be wel pleased that Hylas would serue them And then turning to him O what a foole is Stilliane said I if she thinke I will loue by force and I shall haue but little courage if I euer trouble my selfe for her and why thinkes shee her selfe better than another It is true she deserues one should suffer some paine for her I assure my selfe Hermante she resolued it while you talked with her and that could not be without making at least her eyes narrow without biting her lip and without rubbing one hand on another to make them white I scoffe at her fancies and her selfe too if she thinke I take more care for her than I doe for the greatest stranger in Gaule She knowes not how to reproch me but with my Carlis True it is I loue her and in despite of her I will loue her still and I make no question but she shall soone enough finde her want of wisedome but she must neuer hope that Hylas can loue her I spake such like words at which I saw Hermante change colour but I was then ignorant of the cause since I haue iudged it was for the feare he had that I might come againe into the good graces of his Mistris Yet made he no other shew but that he strained himselfe to laugh and told mee it would make them much amazed when they should see that change if I tooke that resolution as readily would I execute it and in that disseine I went to finde out Carlis of whom I asked a thousand pardons for the Letter which I had written to her assuring her that it was not want but transport of affection She that was angry with me as one may well thinke after she had heard me quietly at last answered me thus Hylas if the assurances you make to me of your good will be true I am satisfied if they be false thinke not that euer you can remoue the amity which for euer you haue broken for your humour is very dangerous She would haue sayd on when Stilliane to shew her the Letter I had written to her comming to visit her interrupted vs when she saw me by Carlis Wake I or dreame I sayd she all astonied Is this Hylas that I see or is it some fancy Carlis wel pleased with this meeting It is Hylas indeede companion sayd she deceiue not your selfe and if it please you to come neere you shall heare the sweete words with which he cries me mercy and how he vnsayes all that which he had written to me submitting himselfe to such punishment as shall please mee His chasticement answered Stilliane ought to be no other than to make him continue the affection he beares me To you said Carlis so farre is it that hee sware when you entred in that hee loued none but mee And since when added Stilliane I know well at the least that I haue a good writing that Hermante an howre since brought me in his behalfe and that you may not doubt of that I say reade this paper and you shall see if I lie O God what became of me at these words I sweare vnto you faire shepheardesse that I was not able to open my mouth for my defence And that which ruined me for euer was that by mis-hap many other shepheardesses came in at the same time to whom they told this tale so much to my disaduantage that I could not possibly tarry there any longer but without speaking a word vnto them I came to tell Hermante my misaduenture who had like to haue dyed with laughter as indeed the matter deserued This bruite so spred ouer all Carmague that I durst not talke to any one shepheardesse that cast it not in my teeth whereat I conceiued such shame that I resolued to goe out of the I le for some time You may see if when I was young I tooke such thought to be called inconstant I ought not at this houre to giue backe a step See what it is sayd Paris one must be an apprentice before he be a master It is true answered Hylas and the worst is wee must often pay for our apprentiship But to come to our discourse being no longer able to endure the ordinary warre which euery one made on me the most secretly I could possibly I gaue order for my businesse and referred the whole care to Hermante and after I put my selfe into a great vessell that lanched out with many others I had then no other purpose but to trauell and passe away the time grieuing no more for Carlis nor Stilliane than if I had neuer seene them for I had so lost their remembrance when I lost their sight that I had not the least sorrow But see how hard it is to crosse the naturall disposition I had no sooner set my foote into the Barke but I sawe a new subiect of Loue. There was among many other passengers an old woman which went to Lyons to render her vowes in the Temple of Venus which shee had made for her sonne and carried with her her daughter in law for the same cause and who with good cause might beare the name of faire for she was no lesse then Stilliane and much more then Carlis her name
talk of another matter sayd to me Know you how Fleurials Aunt doth I answered that since he went I knew nothing Truely sayd she I would be very sorry if the old woman should not do well you haue reason sayd I Madam for she loues you and you haue had many seruices of her which are not yet fully acknowledged If she liue said she I will do it and after her I will remember Fleurial for her sake Then I answered Both the seruices of the aunt those of the Nephew deserue some good recompence and especially Fleurial for his faithfulnesse and affection cannot be bought It is true sayd she but because you speake of Fleurial what great matter had you to say to him or hee to you when he went away I answered coldly I recommended mee to his aunt Recommendations sayd she were not so long then she came neerer me and layd her hand on my shoulder Tell truth continued shee you spake of some other thing And what might it bee replied I if it were not that I had no other businesse with him Now I know sayd she that at this present you dissemble why did you say you had no other businesse with him and haue had so much for Lindamor O! Madam I little thought you would haue remembred a man so vnfortunate and then holding my peace I fetched a deepe sigh What is the matter sayd she that you sigh tell me true where is Lindamor Lindamor answered I is no more then earth How cried shee out Lindamor is no more No indeed answered I the cruelty which you haue vsed towards him hath rather slaine him then the strokes of his enemy for going from the combat and knowing by the report of many the euill satisfaction which you had of him he would neuer suffer himselfe to be dressed and because you haue such a desire to know that was it that Fleurial told mee whom I commanded to assay if he could wisely withdraw the letters which wee haue writ him to the end that as you haue lost the remembrance of his seruices by your cruelty so might I consume in the fire the memories which might remaine O God sayd she what is that you tell me Is it possible he should be so lost It is you sayd I that may say you haue lost him for his part hee hath gained by dying since by death hee hath found rest which your cruelty will neuer permit him while hee liued Ah! Leonide sayd she you tell me these things to put mee to paine confesse the truth hee is not dead Would to God it were so sayd I but for what cause should I tell you I answere his death or life are indifferent to you and specially since you loued him so little you may be glad to be exempted for the importunity he would haue giuen you for you are to beleeue that if he had liued hee would neuer haue ceased from giuing such proofes of his affection as that of Polemas Indeed then sayd the Nymph I am sorry for the poore Lindamor and sweare vnto you that his death touches me more to the quicke then I though it would but tell me had he neuer no remembrance of vs at his end and did hee not shew to be grieued to leaue vs See Madam sayd I a question which is not vsuall He died for your sake and you aske if hee remembred you Ah! that his memory and his sorrow had not bin too great for his helth I beseech you talke no more of him I assure my selfe he is in the place where he receiues the reward of his fidelity and where it may bee hee shall see himselfe reuenged at you cost You are in choler sayd she You must pardon me sayd I Madam but this is the reason that constraines me to speake thus for there is none that can giue more testimony of his affection and fidelity then I and of the wrong you haue done him to giue him so vnworthy a recompence for so many seruices But sayd the Nymph let vs set this aside for I know that in some thing you haue reason but I haue not done so much wrong as you impute And tell mee I pray you by the loue you beare me if in his last words hee remembred mee and what they were Must you sayd I triumph in your soule at the end of his life as you haue done ouer al his actions since he begā to loue you If this must be to your contentment I will satisfie you As soone as he knew that you went about to blemish the honor of his victory and that in stead of pleasing you he hath by this fight got your hatred it shal neuer be sayd he O iniustice that thou shalt for my cause lodge longer in so faire a soule I must by my death wash away my offence Then hee tooke all the clouts which hee had on his wounds and would no more suffer the hand of the Chirurgion his wounds were not mortall but the ranckling brought it to those termes that he perceiued small strength in him to liue he called Fleurial and being alone hee sayd My friend Fleurial thou now lofest him that had great care to do thee good but you must arme your selfe with patience since it is the will of heauen I would yet haue one piece of seruice from thee which shall better please me then that thou euer didst And hauing drawne from him a promise that hee would do it hee continued You must not faile in what I bid you As soone as I shall be dead rip vp my belly and take out the heart and carry it to the faire Galathee and tell her that I send it her that at my death I may keepe nothing that belongs to any other At these last words hee lost both speech and life Now this foole Fleurial that hee may not bee wanting in that which was commanded him by a person whom he held so deare hath brought hither the heart and without me would present it to you Ah! Leonide sayd she is it certaine he is dead Oh God that I knew not his sicknes and you would neuer tell me of it I would haue found some remedy O what a loss haue I sustained how great is your fault Madam answerd I I knew nothing for Fleurial stayed with him to attend him because he had none of his owne but if I had knowne I thinke I should not haue spoken to you of it I knew your mind was so far remoued from that subiect At these words resting her head on her arme she commanded me to leaue her alone to the end as I thought that I might not see her teares which already encreased their drops but hardly was I gone before shee called me backe and without lifting vp her head shee bid mee command Fleurial to bring her that which Lindamor had sent her in what fashion he listed And presently I went out fully assured that the knights affaires for whom I pleaded would fall out